Product Description 　　International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore. 　　Contents 　　■ Circular Concerning the Collecting of Folk Poetry 　　Jacob Grimm 　　■ Folk-Lore and the Origin of the Word 　　William Thoms 　　■ Request 　　Wilhelm Mannhardt 　　■ An Angel Flew Through the Room 　　Reinhold K?hler 　　■ The Study of Folk-Lore 　　Max Müller 　　■ The Method of Julius Krohn 　　Kaarle Krohn 　　■ The Message of the Folk-Lorist 　　W.B. Yeats 　　■ On the Need for a Bibliography of Folklore 　　Giuseppe Pitrè 　　■ A Dialogue in Gyergyó-Kilényfalva 　　Béla Bartók 　　■ In Search of Folktales and Songs 　　Boris and Yuri Sokolov 　　■ Epic Laws of Folk Narrative 　　Axel Olrik 　　■ The Rites of Passage 　　Arnold Van Gennep 　　■ The Principles of Sympathetic Magic 　　James George Frazer 　　■ The Structure of Russian Fairy Tales 　　Vladimir Propp 　　■ Observations on Folklore 　　Antonio Gramsci 　　■ Geography and Folk-Tale Oicotypes 　　Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow 　　■ Irish Tales and Story-Tellers 　　Seamus ó Duilearga 　　■ Symbolism in Dreams 　　Sigmund Freud 　　■ Wedding Ceremonies in European Folklore 　　Géza Róheim 　　■ Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Folklore Field Study 　　Kenneth S. Goldstein 　　■ Suggestions for Further Reading in the History of Folkloristics.